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Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.

Political interference in the U.S. Postal Service isn't new, according to Winifred Gallagher, the author of How the Post Office Created America.

How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price.

US billionaires’ wealth is soaring while millions remain unemployed, creating a country with two economies and increased inequality

Among the most brutal realities for Palestinians is loss of support from Arab states, who pay lip service to their own populations, while drawing closer to Israel with economic interests and Iran in mind.

The Mexican actor and director Diego Luna has persuaded experts to join him on a new TV show to talk, eat and, hopefully, examine their own beliefs and prejudices

Arizona public school district forced to abandon plans after more than 100 teachers and staff members called in sick

Good thing nobody's predicting a huge surge in mail any time soon.

A completely politicized and manufactured crisis threatens to destroy the US Postal Service, our most important, successful and trusted institution by any measure. While the Trump Administration seeks to destroy it we must embrace and empower it.

President Trump has undermined a US arms control regime developed over seven decades by successive US administrations. He is seeking to reverse important steps towards disarmament and arms control taken by every US president from Eisenhower to Obama.